What Hamel Husain thinks about LLMs
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant; writes about LLM evaluation and tooling at hamel.dev.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Hamel Husain has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingPeople cannot fully specify what they want from an AI system without first observing how it behaves.
Their wordsAdditionally, a LLM cannot read your mind, and research shows that people need to observe the LLM's behavior in order to properly externalize their requirements.
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